Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...